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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 
WASHINGTON 25. D. C. 
April 14, 1958 
AIR MA.IL 
Dr. Waldo L. Schmitt 
o/o V. E. B. Nicholson & Sons 
P, 0. Box 103 
St. John* s 
Antigua, B. V/. I. 
Dear Dr. Schmitt: 
Thank you for keeping us so well posted. I hope that someone 
has done better from this end than I have. Mrs. Black has been 
out, and we have neglected all but the urgent correspondence. 
Mrs. Schmitt has probably written that Mr. Oehser agreed to 
pay for the book. Miss McCain has been Ipyally putting your mail 
in your room everyday# I have looked it over from tisie to time^ 
and nothing looks to either of us as if it v/ould start smoking 
before your return# 
I fear that I may have "pulled one boner," however# Just be- 
fore your first letter arrived, a woman called to find out when 
you were due back# I understood her to say that she was calling 
for Dr# Setzler and wondered at the time why he was interested in 
your schedule# After your letter came, it dawned on me that she 
must have said "Dr# Sexton#” I told her that I did not know whai 
you would return but that probably it would not be until the second 
week in May# I am soriy# 
You can gloat over the fact that yesterday was the first day 
that the air fglt and smelled at all like spring# It is supposed 
to approach 70 today--the warmest day of the year# The baseball 
season will therefore open auspiciously, but the cherry blossoms 
are not out yet and they seem determined to set a record for tardi- 
ness# 
J 
